Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-06-25

vonie Ut iusu 7s1tn Songs arm EcIviclng, ~
will take u very broad banner to nod inc
names of all the battlefelds on which they
got the victory.
Some years ago roughly clad, ragged
boy camc into my brothers. Office In New
York aud said: 'Mr. Talmagc, lend me
So" My brother said: "Who are your,
Tho boy replied: 81 nm nobody. Lend
me S5.'' "What do you want to do With
S5s" "Wcll' the boy replied, "my
mother is sick and poor and Iwant to go
into tho newspaper business, and shall
get home for her and Twill pay you
back" My brother gave him the SO, Of
course never expecting to see it again; but
he said: 'tWhcn will you pay its'' The
boy said: 81 will pay it In six months,
slr.n Time went by, and ono day lad
came into my brothers. Office and said:
.sTherc's your So 'tWhnt do you
mcan9! What $5?'' inquired my brother.
':pon,t you remember that u boy came in
here six months ago and wanted TO Dor
row SO to 60 into the newspaper BUSH
ness?n "0h,. yes, remember; are you
tho ladp's "Ycs," lie replied, II have got
along nicely. / huvc got n nice homo for
my mother (she is sick yeti and am us
well clothed ms you are, and there's Your
$5.'' Oh, was honot worth saving? Why,
That lud is worth fifty such boys rs l have
sometimes seen moving in elegant circles,
never put TO any use for God OF man.
Worth s,tvingl so farther that that
and tell you they arc not only worth say-
ing but they arc being saved. Ono OF
thescilnds picked up from our streets and
sent west by u benevolent society wrote
east, saying: 81 am getting along first
rate. nm on probation in the Methodist
church. l shall be entered rs
member the 1st Of next month. now
teach Sunday school Gl9ss OF eleven
boys get along first ratawitll it, This
is q splendid country 10 NIGGA living In.
II the boys rsinn1ng around The strccCwit
blacking box on their shoulder, or q
bundle of papers under their arms, only
know what high old times wo boys have
out hero, they wouldn't hesitate about
coming west, but como the first chance
they gotr So some by one humane and
Christian visitation, end some by another,
are being rescued. III one reform school,
through which 1000 of the little ones
passed, 1895 turned out we'll. In other
words, only five of tho 5000 turned out
badly There are thousands of them who,
through Christian societies, have been
transplantcd 10 beautiful homes al over
this l;nd, and there are many who,
through tho rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won tho crown. A
little girl was found i'll the streets Of Bal-
timorc md taken into one Of the reform
societies, and they said to her: "What is
your nance" She suid: "My namc is
Mary" "What is your other namc?" She
said: III don't know" So they took her
into the reform society, and us they did
not know her Inst name they always
c;lllcd her 'iNlary Lost" since she had
been picked up out of the street. Butsh
grew on, and aftec awhile the Holy Spirit
came to her heart and she became u
Christian child, and she changed her
name; and when anybody asked her
what her name was she said: at used
to be Mary Lost; but now, since
have become Christian, it is Mary
| Found"
For this vast multitude are VIC willing
to 70 forth from this mornings service
and sec what we Gun do, employing all
tho agencies have spoken of for the rect
| iflcation of the poisoned fountains? We
live in o beautiful city. The lines have
fallen to us in pleasant places and we
have u gootlly heritage; and my man who
does not like u residence in Brooklynmust
be most uncomfortable and unreasonable
man. But, my friends, the material
prosperity of q city is not its chief glory.
There may be fine houses and beautiful
streets, and that all be the garnituresof
O. scprlcher. Some of the most prosper
Gus cities of the world have gono down;
not one stone left upon another. But
city may be in ruins long before tower
has fallen. or II column has crumbled, ora
tomb has been defaced. When in
q city the churches of God are
| full of cold formalitics and inanimate re-
ligion; when tho houses of commerce are
the abode of fraud and unholy traffic, !
when the streets are ljlef with crime un33
arrested and ge az. esaa.iaaas .aslaf
,lsssasss. va city is in Fains
mar ~. .2 every house had u
a,o =, "i 70 S.sai Sims and roof like
Chat of Amicns and q tower Hike that of
Antwerp and traceried windows like those
OF Freiburg.
My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly
tho time away, and soon we shall be gone,
and what we have to do for the city in
which we live we must do right speedily
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